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Saviour on a Stick!
Sweet juju zombie Jesus, I missed Blasphemy Day?1 I know I miss "Talk Like a Pirate Day" every year, by why would I want to sound like I'm from the West Country anyway? Blasphemy Day, though? This is important, godfuckingdamnit. Why does no one tell me these things?!
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Time-Domain Telescope
So, apparently, researchers have invented a method for transferring data at an increased rate using what they refer to as a "time-domain telescope", a way of focusing optical pulses to make them "shorter in time" to transmit data at an increased rate. Unfortunately, no article I have found seems to be able to use unambiguous language to describe ( Read more... ) -
Dear rollover advert designer:
Putting the "Close this fucking annoying video rollover advert that blocks the content you actually want to read" button in the fucking position normally occupied by the non-rollover version is fucking evil, and I hope you die of some form of genital-based cancer. You know what you do after clicking that fucking button in the upper left corner? You ( Read more... ) -
Accepting evolution could help save Christianity from itself
"Religion was not supposed to provide explanations that lay within the competence of reason but to help us live creatively with realities for which there are no easy solutions and find an interior haven of peace; today, however, many have opted for unsustainable certainty instead. But can we respond religiously to evolutionary theory? Can we use it ( Read more... ) -
On the vast progressive spirit of America
"What do we want!? A small improvement! When do we want it!? 2016!"
Ganked from groovesinorbit, because... well, yeah. It's sad.
(Caution, link contains Bill Maher)
ETA: Also, newsflash: Male senator doesn't need maternity care, therefore figures employers shouldn't be required to provide it.
You can't make this shit up, people. This is what Republican ( Read more... ) -
What, really?
So, I was thinking I might write an entry about having just made a post to cololnials, as some of you have friended me long after the last time the community was active. Particularly, I was going to comment on how weird it was to look at the community after all this time, and see nearly a hundred people watching it, even though it's dead, and realize I'm ( Read more... ) -
PSA: LJ media embedding hack
I know I seldom checked news regularly, so there must be more out there ( Read more... ) -
Dear Webmasters and Webmistresses, Online Businesses everywhere
You know what's worse than making information you want on your website available only in .pdf form in this day and age?
Making it available only as a .pdf wrapped in a static-height-and-width iframe that ends up smaller than the fucking .pdf to be displayed..pdfs lead to plug-ins. Plug-ins lead to interior chrome. Interior chrome leads to ugly, ( Read more... )